Constituency
156. Ladakh
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-LADAKH
IND 44.5%won by 13.2%JKN 31.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 13.2%.
- New challengerJKN (JKN) finished second with 31.2% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.7% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 8.2% to 58.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
77,631
Turnout
58.8%
Valid votes
45,676
Margin
6,052
13.25%
Candidates
4 contested · winner IND- 1PHUNTSOG NAMGYALIndependent · IND20,31444.5%
- 2KACHO HABIB ULLAH KHANJKN · JKN14,26231.2%
- 3KACHO MOHD ALI KHANIndependent · IND10,79723.6%
- 4MOHD ALI ALIAS ALI KARGILIndependent · IND3030.7%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–JKN swing
- −33.4%
- IND share
- 46.7% → 44.5%
- JKN share
- 0.0% → 31.2%
- Turnout
- 67.0% → 58.8%